The trend for all things naval kicked off when the artist Franz Winterhalter painted the four-year-old Prince Albert Edward in a white sailor suit for a Channel Islands’ cruise in 1846. By the 1870s, both boys and girls were sporting the look.

huge shoulder pads and war paint (passing homage to extrovert US tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands perhaps?), the boys were sporting rugby-style striped shirts and Varsity logos.The girls came out looking sporty too, brandishing baseball bats

is married to a doctor and has four children.     What were your favourite toys and games as a child? I loved painting, drawing and dressing up. I had some lovely dolls – May and Jacqueline – and I used to make clothes for them. I still love party games

have ever given anyone was a dolls house that my daughter played and played and played with, painting the rooms, making the people and directing the scene. She has just left school and started on a Fine Art degree but still draws inspiration from it! My

's Pitti Bimbo also favoured. Fluoro pink jackets with novel teddy bear backpacks were fun, a padded gillet layered over a floral smock was a nice contrast of tradition and new. Boyswear was notably colourful; bold blues were painted over cargo pants

Dracula: Prints Of Darkness Dracula mask (part of a four-piece Dracula dressing-up set) £8 by Marks & Spencer (ages 2–8); space-print sweatshirt £90 by Lacoste (ages 2–14); teal cords £37 by Mini A Ture (ages 2–12); paint-splattered suede boots £60